List of Acronyms:
- .shp: extension name of shapefiles, a popular GIS data format
- .dbf: extension name of a database file, file containing data on the associated shapefile
- APAAT: African Protected Area Assessment Tool, http://bioval.jrc.ec.europa.eu/PA/
- DOPA: Digital Observatory for Protected Areas , http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
- CSW: OGC's Catalogue Service for the Web. http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat
- GIS: Geographic Information Systems
- HRI: Habitat irReplaceability Indicator .
- IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature
- IUCN red list of threatened species: IUCN's ranking of species according to their conservation status. Core categories are Least Concern, Near Threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critically Endangered. http://www.iucnredlist.org/
- JRC: the Joint Research Centre providing scientific and technical support to the European Commission.
- OGC: The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. http://www.opengeospatial.org/
- PA: Protected Area
- Shapefile: a GIS file format
- SOA: Service Oriented Architecture
- SRI: Species irReplaceability Indicator
- WCS: OGC's Web Coverage Service (WCS) for serving gridded and raster datat. http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs
- WFS: OGC's Web Feature Service for serving boundaries encoded in Geography Markup Language (GML). http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs
- WDPA: World Database on Protected Areas. http://www.wdpa.org/
- WMS: OGC Web Map Service for serving map images. http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms